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05.02.12Social Networking and Organ Donating in one, Is it possible?Sometimes the smallest discussions generate the greatest ideas. Imagine having the initiative to gather all organ donors into a room to talk about what part of their internal organs they would be willing to donate and how the right person that's miles away would benefit from it. Though we could clearly see that there's an organ shortage when we are in need of a transplant (who wouldn't have a shortage when we aren't equipped with a pair of all internal organs at any given time), there's still a way to find that appropriate donor somewhere across the cyberspace (that's right, cyber). Founder ...
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05.01.12Facebook now lets you tell the world that you’re an organ donorIt's a fact that the only way to know that a person is an organ donor is when you look at a person's driver's license, Medical insurance or some government issues ID that let's a person check the organ that they intend to donate in-case he or she's in a fatal accident, in some cases this can be considered a private information. Now of all the private information that Facebook have divulge to the world; "Sharing Your Organ Donor" status must be the most sensible and probably the feature that will likely to save more life than all of Facebook ...
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04.26.12Trend Micro partners with Facebook for online securityTrend Micro recently announced its partnership with the social network giant Facebook to make the site better protected. With this partnership, Facebook is going to leverage the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network that will help the website filter out those malicious links eventually stopping malware attacks. This will help members feel that they protected against cybercriminals when they are logged in to Facebook. Continue Reading...
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04.13.12Facebook just made it easier to
stalklocate YOU!A few days ago, Facebook announced that they'll be making your Facebook address (URL) the same as your Facebook email address, which means, a spammer just need to know what your Facebook email address is and be able to access your FB Timeline (Profile) or vice versa. Continue Reading... -
04.09.12Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 BillionFaceBooks's CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced that they (Facebook) just acquire InstaGram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Mark also explains that they're keeping InstaGram independent and giving the same control to user before the deal was close. Which means InstaGram users are will still have the ability to share (or not to share) the photos that they took using InstaGram to whatever social media sites that they want. The deal will surely give the InstaGram team the (Facebook) resources that a small startup can only dream of and with this announcement, it looks like Google would have to look ...
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12.30.11Facebook testing its own FB Windows MessengerFacebook is currently testing a windows messenger service that will surely be a hit amongst Facebook power user. The "Messenger" is currently available to a limited number of user and once word gets out, will no longer be limited. The news was first reported by Israeli blog TechIT and now Facebook officially announced the Facebook Windows Messenger client. Continue Reading...
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10.11.11Finally! A Facebook App for iPad!It took them long enough so I just installed the Facebook app for iPhone. But finally the Facebook App for iPad is online and it will be a 10.5 MB update if you installed the Facebook app for iPhones on your iPad. The Facebook app for iPad was reported to have been scrapped because Facebook appeared to be prioritizing the web (html5) app version with a code name "PROJECT SPARTAN" but I guess that all in the past now. Though I pretty sure that SPARTAN will eventually go live one way or the other. Continue Reading...
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09.23.11How much do you like or dislike the new Facebook?These past 2 weeks, Facebook has been busy adding and updated existing features like the new Facebook photo, layout and then there's the new Friendlist, Subscribe, new Ticker and a few hours ago Mark Z. announced the new FB Timeline, that basically shows a year of your life in just one page. Changing something that a lot of people are already comfortable using, more often than not will receive a lot of criticism, negative feedback and a more straight answer is that "NOT EVERYONE LIKES THE NEW FACEBOOK!". One facebook user did the next best thing, created a letter that is ...
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09.22.11LiveStreaming: Facebook's f8 ConferenceWatch the Facebook f8 Conference that is currently being held at San Francisco. Facebook is expected to launch a major upgrade to Facebook and the Facebook's social platform. To join the action, you can watch the live streaming after the break and you may still catch Mark Z. cracking jokes and deliver that big announcement about that new facebook feature, apps and what not, plus you can also interact with the 82k+ people who are currently viewing the video. Continue Reading...
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08.14.11Video: 5 Mins Interview of Mark Z from 2005Funny how 5 years can change a person, it can even change the direction of one company. Checkout the video below and see how the young Mark Zuckerberg envision Facebook or "TheFacebook" to be the online directory for colleges. Of course that vision didn't happen, since it became the online directory of 750 million people around the world. Video after the break. Continue Reading...
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